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About Graham

After leaving uni with a postgrad degree in journalism Graham Joined a multi award-winning commercials post house as an editorial assistant. Five years later, as an editor with a strong background in film, video and non linear finishing, he joined Avid in London - first as a trainer, and later in technical support, becoming UK product specialist for Media Composer. Post production workflow design and implementation has always been a passion, and Graham led much of the pioneering non-linear shared production and editorial process work on large feature films and documentaries, most of which are still in use today. Currently he focuses on shared automated broadcast and post environments and optimised file-based workflows.

NAB 2012- Day 1 overview

Well we finally finished our full day on the show floor. The overheated, frantic press release driven first day is behind us, and we can try and look back at the first days worth of highlights. Blog this! Recommend on … Continue reading

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Understanding the NAB 2012 Avid Announcements

Avid have made a slew of announcements this year at NAB12 and we are going to take a brief first look at them. It is always tricky to asses the implications of product announcements if you have had no hands … Continue reading

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What do you install first on a new OSX machine?

When you build a new machine or repave an existing one, which applications do you put back first? Well it depends who you are – it depends what you do. If you are a developer you would be installing a … Continue reading

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Avid ingest without Avid

For many of our users, real time video capture or ingest into an avid shared storage environment is a pressing problem that has typically been quite difficult to solve. If you are running a so called “rigged camera show”  where … Continue reading

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first post from the slab

sorry to inflict this on you all but I was looking at blogging from an IPad appHere is the first test posting…thanks for your patience… [Posted with iBlogger from my iPad] Blog this! Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet … Continue reading

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NAB Roundup 2011

The NAB show is always a daunting and slightly bewildering experience. There is always an overwhelming amount on display, and one always has the sneaking feeling of potentially missing the next big thing tucked away in some some little stand … Continue reading

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FCPX unveiled at at the NAB Supermeet 2011.

After nearly two years of speculation, guessing, and and endless debate about “what do you think Apple is going to do?” We found out. Here are some dry facts for starters: Pure 64bit code. leveraging core technologies such as Coco, … Continue reading

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Matrox demonstrates MXO2 on Thunderbolt at NAB2011

All in the title really They are demoing a MXO2 on a new 15 inch Laptop with the typical functionality of the device. We will post some live pics from the demo shortly… Blog this! Recommend on Facebook Share on … Continue reading

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On the eve of NAB 2011

Sitting on a balcony overlooking the garish Las Vegas boulevard or “the strip” as it is known was an opportunity to take a breather between reseller channel briefings and reflect on unfolding events here in Las Vegas before NAB officially … Continue reading

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My tech pick of BVE 2011 – OLED displays

At BVE this year Sony, amongst many other offerings, were showing a 25inch OLED (organic light emitting diode) display – set up on the inside area of their stand alongside a 24 inch BVE LCD professional display for a viewing … Continue reading

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